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This document is a memo prepared by an official in the NSA. It describes the "channel capacity" of the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID). This capacity refers to the divisions ability to meaningfully analzye the amounts of data that it…

This report was prepared by an official in the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID) of the NSA. It criticizes some commonly held philosophical viewpoints within the administration of the NSA.

This articles, from the SIGINT philosopher series, published in the internal NSA newsletter, SIDtoday, discusses the analysts role in acknowledging the SIGINT information gaps. The article gives insight into the work of a SIGINT analyst.

This document is a memo created by an official within the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID) of the NSA. In it, the author describes "analysis paralysis", a situation where over analysis hinders developing coherent action. The article then goes…

This document is a memo created by an official within the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID) of the NSA. In it, the author describes "analysis paralysis", a situation where over analysis hinders developing coherent action. The article then goes…

This article, from the internal NSA newsletter, SIDtoday, is one in a series written by the "SIGINT philosopher." This article discusses the performance and peer review system among NSA analysts.

This document is a column from the NSA newsletter, SIDtoday, written by the SIGINT philosopher. It dicusses workplace writtern correspondence etiquette.

This document is a memo prepared by an official within the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID). It raises the concern that the structure of SID's SIGINT intelligence gathering operations may affect the cognitive biases of officers within…

This document contains internal NSA training material, explaining in detail the separation between the role the technician as it relates to the NSA's Business Records (BR) and Pen Register Trap and Trace (PR/TT) Bulk Metadata Programs.

This document is a report prepared by a consultant working for Booz Allen Hamilton. It provides a comprehensive user's guide for the NSA's data analysis tool, XKEYSCORE.